The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-13

- are Of moro general iatercst.
ARTICLE IIL--LnanLArrvE DEPARTMENT.
SEC. q The regular sessions OF the Legislature
first Tuesday after the first Monday in April,
A. D. 1887, and on the corresponding day Of
every second year thereafter, but the Governor
may convene the same in extra session by his
proclamation. Regular sessions u the LsgislA-
ture may extend to sixty days. but no special
session convened by the Governor shall exceed
SEC g. The members of the House of Repre-
sentatives shall be chosen bennially, those OF
the frst Legislature on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, A. d. 1885, and
thereafter on the corresponding day Of every
second year.
SEC. 4. Senators and members of the House of
Representatives shall be duly qualified electors
in the respective counties and districts for which
they were chosen. The pay OF members Of the
Senate and House of Representatives shall not
exceed six dollars day for each day of session,
and mileage TO and from their homes to the
seat of government, not to exceed ten cents
mile each way, by the nearest and most practical
BILE route
SEC. z. No person holding lucrative Office
or appointment under the United States or this
State, shall be eligible TO seat in the Legislature
of this State.
SEC. 18. No law shall take effect until sixty
days from the final adjournment of the session
of the Legislature at which it may have been
enacted, unless otherwise specially provided in
such law.
SEC. 90 The Legislature shall not pass special
or local laws in any OF the following enumerated
cases that is to say regulating the jurisdiction
and duties OF any class of officers except NUM-
cipal officers, or for the punishment Of crime or
misdemeanor; regulating the practice Of courts
of Justice, except municipal courts providing
for changing venue of civil and criminal cases;
granting divorces changing the names of per-
neling grand and petit juries, and providing ror
their Compensation for assessment and collec-
ton of taxes for State and county purposes; for
opening and conducting elections for State and
county officers, and for designating the places OF
voting for the sale Of real estate belonging to
minors estates of decedents, and of persons
laboring under legal disabilities regulating the
fees of officers of the State and county; giving
effect to informal or invalid deeds wills legtf-
MIXING children !; providing for the adoption OF
children reliving minors from legal disabilities;
and for the establishment of ferries.
SEC 81. In all cases enumerated in the pre-
ceCing section all laws shall be general and of
uniform operation throughout the Stvte, but in
all cases not enumerated or excepted in that sec
ton, the Legislature may pass special or local
laws; Rrocaded, That no local or special bill shall
be passed. unless notice of the intention TO apply
therefor shall have been published in the local
ity where the matter or thing 10 be affected may
be situated, which notice shall state the sub
stance of the contemplated law, and shall tie
published at least sixty days prior to the intro
duction into the Legislature Of such BILL and in
the manner to be provided by law. The evil
dence that such notice has been published shall
be established in the Legislature before such bill
shall be passed.
SEC. g. Provision may be made by general
law tor bringing suit against the State as to all
liabilities existing or hereafter originating
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election by the people or appointment by the
Governor of all State and county officers not
otherwise provided for by this Constitution, and
| fix by law their duties and compensation.
ARTICLE IV-ExEcUTIvE DEPARTMENT.
SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected by the
qualified electors of the State at the time and
places Of voting tor members of the Legislature,
and shall hold his office for four years from the
time OF his installation but shall not be eligible
for reelection to said Office the next succeeding
trim; Prvcided, That the first election for Gov
ernor under this Constitution htll be had at the
4 time and places of voting for members of the
Legislature and State officers, A. d. 1888, and
| the term of office of the Governor then elected
shall begin on the first Tuesday after the first
| Monday in January after his election.
SEC. 8. NOpers0n shall be eligible to the office
| Of Governor who is not qualified electOr, and
who has not been ten years citizen OF the
United States, and five years a citizen and resi-
dent of the State of Florida, next preceding the
| time of his election Provided, That these lim-
tations OF time shall not apply to the President
OF the Senate or Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives when, under this Constitution, the
powers and duties of Governor shall devolve
upon them.
SEC. T. When any Office, from any cause, shall
become vacant, and no mode is provided by this
Constitution or by the laws OF the State for fill
| ing such vacancy, the Governor shall have the
power to fill such vacancy by granting commits
sion for the unexpired term.
Sec. 8. The Governor may on extraordinary
occasions, convene the Legislature by proclama-
ton, and shall in his proclamation state the pur-
pose for which it is TO be convened, and the Leg
islature when organized shall transact no legis.
| lative business other than that for which it is
| especially convened, or such other legislative
| business as the Governor may call to its atten-
ton while in session, excepti by two-thirds
vote of each House
Sec 8. The Governor shall communicate by
| message to the Legislature at each regular ses-
| sion information concerning the condition OF the
| State, and recommend such measures as he may
| deem expedient.
| SEC. Is. All officers that shall have been ap-
pointed elected, and that are not liable to i'm
| poachment, may be suspended from Office by
the Governor for malfeasance, or msfeasance, or
| neglect Of duty in office, for the commission of
| any felony, or for drunkenness or incOmpetency,
| and the cause of suspension shall be comm uni
|
at its next session. And the Governor, by and
| with the consent of the Senate, may remove any
officer, not liable tn Impeachment, for any cause
above named Every suspension shall continue
| until the adjournment of the next session Of the
Senate, unless the officer suspended SHALL upon
| the recommendation of the Governor, be re-
moved; but the Governor may reinstate the
officer so suspended UPON satisfactory evidence
that the charge or charges against him arc IN
1 true. Ii the Senate shall refuse TO remove OF
fail to take action before its adjournment the
| officer suspended shall resume the duties of the
! office. The Governor shall have power TO fill by
I appointment any office, the incumbent of which
has been suspended. No officer suspended who
shall under this section resume the duties of his
office, shall suffer any loss of salary or other com
pensatlon In consequences Of such suspension
The suspension or removal herein authorized
| shall not relieve the officer from indictment fol-
any misdemeanOr in Office.
Sec. II. The Governor and The administrative
officers of the Executive Department shall con
| etitute a Board OF Commissioners Of State Insti
1 tutiOns which Board shall have supervision oil
all matters connected with such institutions in
I such manner shall be prescribed by law
SEC IL The Governor shall have power to
disapprOve Of any item or items of any bills
making appropriations of money embracing dis
tinct items and the part or parts of the bill ap-
| proved shall be the law, and the item or items o.
appropriation dlsapprOved shall be void, unless
repasssd according 10 the rules and limitations
prescribed for the passage Of other bills over the
| Executive veto.
| Sec. ~. The Governor shall be assisted bv adj
| ministrative officers as follows: A Secretary Of
! Stale, Attorney General Comptroller, Treasurer
/ Superintendent of Public Instruction and Com